On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Yaron wrote: > Ok, I've been running a software RAID5 on one of my older systems for a > while. Almost every time I reboot, it claims the RAID is degraded and > dumps me into busybox, where all I can really do is exit and HOME it'll > see the drives next time I reboot. This is solved by rebooting anywhere > from 2 to 20 times. > > I figured it was this system or these harddrives or this SATA controller > or... whatever. But I just set up a brand new RAID array on a brand new > machine using brand-new drives and a brand-new array, etc, etc. Same > exact issue. > > Anyone have ANY idea if this is ME doing something wrong, or what? I don't really know anything except that the tricky part of making my RAID 1 work was figuring out how the boot partition is supposed to be set up. I didn't get that right and then after a kernel update it wouldn't reboot unless I went back to the earlier kernel. That might be irrelevant, but judging from things I was reading on web forums and advice I was getting, this is a tricky issue. With larger drives (more than 2.2 TB) we have to use GPT instead of MBR and then all kinds of little annoyances come along. Are you using GPT? Mike